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...wholly different, more leisurely universe, full of choices and passions long delayed. There is Hulda Crooks, 91, who has climbed 97 mountains since she turned 65, most recently Mount Fuji in Japan. And Dentist James Jay, 74, who finished, along with 51 other septuagenarians and four octogenarians, that 26-mile ribbon of pain, the New York City Marathon ... But these days, many of those over 65 who prepared themselves for a life of leisure found they were not cut out for it. For them, the greatest luxury of retirement is returning to work--on their own terms. Robert Pamplin...
...frozen continent of Antarctica is almost equally deadly, but at the other end of the temperature scale. Drill into the ice cap a mile, then another, and you reach, improbably, a body of water known as Lake Vostok that rivals Lake Ontario in size. While scientists haven't yet drilled into the lake itself, they have pulled up samples of frozen lake water clinging to the bottom of the ice cap that contain unmistakable evidence of microbial DNA. Although it hovers near the freezing point, cut off from light and outside nutrients, Lake Vostok is teeming with microorganisms. "Nobody," marvels...
DIED. CHARLES BURTON, 59, one of a small band of British explorers who took part in the world's first pole-to-pole expedition, a 52,000-mile trip; of a heart attack; in Framfield, England. Burton and friends set off from London in September 1979. Before arriving at the North Pole and returning home in August 1982, Burton, the son of a Royal Navy commander, battled the Sahara sun and a polar bear, survived on an ice floe for three months and married his fiance during a brief stop in Sydney, Australia...
...acid-test day at the Pakistan Military Academy, an event dreaded by every student. For nearly two years, the cadets have learned to run a mile in six minutes, perform endless rounds of sit-ups and push-ups, climb into a boxing ring to battle their fellow junior officers. The Acid Test is the most grueling exercise of all. The academy is in the Himalayan foothills north of Islamabad, but the weather is still brutal: 95[degree]F by midday. First the cadets have to traverse a mountain carrying logs on their shoulders. Then they run nine miles with full...
...crew. Since 1998, the adventurer has tried to complete the first solo circumnavigation of the globe by balloon. After five attempts--most of which ended abruptly in large bodies of water--he made it. But by staying far south, he shortened what would have been a nearly 25,000-mile journey at the equator to 19,428 miles. He spent 15 days in freezing cold, breathing through an oxygen mask and using a bucket as a toilet, before alighting in Queensland, Australia, where he dispensed with fine wine and guzzled a Bud Light. Even a millionaire needs endorsements...